Artificial Lures

Honestly, I prefer fishing to catching- I could spend the whole day fishing without a single fish and be happy. That said, when I'm betting on a horse race, it sure doesn't hurt to win once in a while. I guess catching a few fish might make a great day fishing even better!

I spent the last week fishing with my kids checking out some local ponds in my area. I tested a spinner that caught my eye this summer http://www.joesflies.com/shop/product.php?productid=82&cat=0&page=1 and had amazing results on pickeral, bass, and sunfish in several ponds. It was a lot of fun and made me look like a mighty fisherman in my kid's eyes. It was definitely worth the couple bucks it cost me. Does anyone else have an especially lucky lure they'd like to recommend?

Time to catch and release those Brookies

Maine state law now states:

"From August 16 - September 30, rivers, brooks, and streams are restricted to the use of artificial lures only and the total daily bag limit for landlocked salmon, trout and togue (lake trout) is 1 fish."

These poor fish are starving due to all the rain we've been having. My kids have been catching a lot of hungry brookies lately using worms. They have even begun to experiment with different lure and worm combinations. This weekend we're switching to lures only. We don't have a problem with the limit since we try to keep it to one fish per person anyway.

What a crazy Summer we've had. There is so much water in our brook that I saw a Beaver submerge and swim upstream. I was so startled I didn't take a picture in time!

Let those brook trout spawn and stick to the lakes- happy fishing!